Staple-puller.



No. 656,7". Patented Aug. 28, IQU D. A. AXELTON.

STAPLE PULLER.

(Application filed Apr. 23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

, Ilnrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW AXELTON, OF GRAETTINGER, IOWA.

STAPLE-FULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,711, dated August 28, 1900.

Application filed April 23, 1900.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW AXELTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Graettinger, Palo Alto county, State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Device for Pulling Staples from Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for pulling staples from fence posts which fastens or holds the wire thereto.

The object of my device is to facilitate or make easy the removal of wire-fence staples from posts. I attain this object by the mech anism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view of the device in position for pulling a staple from a post.

The semicircular clamp or arm A, which is the part that fastens around and into the post, and the lever or handle 0 and the claw B are the different parts of said device, which are composed of iron. The semicircular arm A is about eight inches in diameter, and the lever O is twelve inches in length. The semicircular arm A rotates in an almost complete Serial No. 14,033. (No model.)

circle or are and is fastened to the upper part of lever C and held by ascrew-nutl The le= ver 0 which is fastened to the arm A allows the arm to work freely through the opening in the lever O.

In operating said machine the arm A is placed around the post and fastened to it by the sharp point on the end of the arm. The claw B is then placed under the wire, with the staple between the jaws of the claw, and the lever G is pressed down, thereby removing the staple.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A staple-puller comprising the combination with a lever having at one end staple-engaging claws of a curved bar one end of which is pointed and the other end of which forms a pivot for said lever the curved bar lying in a plane at right angles to the plane in which the lever operates on such point.

ANDREW AXELTO N. lVitnesses:

MARION E. CROSSON, CHRISTEN JENSEN. 

